Finger Olympics

Tune in as the most talented fingers from all over the world come together to compete in events ranging from sprinting to javelin to pole-vaulting, and ultimately celebrate what it means to be a finger, and a citizen of Earth.

The Finger Olympics started out asn an idea tossed around at Eyebeam between Friedrich Kirschner and Zach Lieberman, and eventually turned into a playable computer vision project.

Tagged with: Openframeworks

One of my students wants to get stock quotes from Yahoo Finance for his project, so I wrote a bit of code to do a HTTP GET and regular expression. I am a bit out of touch with what has been going on with scraping/web-related stuff in oF, but I recently got a request for a scraper addon that I helped write forever ago, and I wasn’t able to quickly find anything much newer, so I thought this might be useful. It actually takes advantage of the Poco library, which is now part of the standard oF distribution, so anyone can use it without getting any additional addons.

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across the site weeknotes.com, and the concept struck to me as a great, low-commitment way of journaling without the pretense of pretending to have some super deep insights that need to be written down.
Weeknotes are “about reflecting on your work, your achievements, and what’s on deck.“ Simple.
It has been 145 weeks since I started as a fellow at Eyebeam – arguably the beginning of my professional career. So, what happened on this 145th week?

Evan Roth's Graffiti Taxonomy; Zach Lieberman, Theodore Watson, Arturo Castro and the OF community's OpenFrameworks; and Free Art and Technology (F.A.T), openFrameworks, Graffiti Research Lab,The Ebeling Group and Tony Quan's The EyeWriter all announced by The Design Museum in London as on the shortlist for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010 in the Interactive category.